Buckypaper — Out of the Lab, Into the Market

doomsdaywire writes "Buckypaper isn't exactly news to anyone here. However, this article quotes Ben Wang, director of Florida State's High-Performance Materials Institute, saying, 'Our plan is perhaps in the next 12 months we'll begin maybe to have some commercial products.' The article continues: '"If this thing goes into production, this very well could be a very, very game-changing or revolutionary technology to the aerospace business," said Les Kramer, chief technologist for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, which is helping fund the Florida State research. ... The long-range goal is to build planes, automobiles and other things with buckypaper composites. The military also is looking at it for use in armor plating and stealth technology.'"

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Oh wonderful

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Nanotech. A whole new zoo of materials, significantly different in their properties from the same stuff in macro form, but that isn't in itself regulated.

This could turn into another DDT

Re:Oh wonderful

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Except, you ignorant fucktard, DDT is still in use in places where the risk of malaria is higher than the risks from DDT. But don't let me get in the way of your mindless knucle-dragging hippie-bashing with niggling little facts.

I am not saying ban them. Don't make shit up. They simply need to be regulated as their own chemicals, as all existing chemicals are before they reach the market. The governments of the world haven't caught up with the fact nanomaterials are different from macromaterials. Thats all. No need to whip out your right-wing talking points.